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Vaudeville Quotes

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink Picture Quote #1

Each couple is its own vaudeville act Picture Quote #1

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved Picture Quote #1

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in Picture Quote #1

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me Picture Quote #1

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it Picture Quote #1

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My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working Picture Quote #1

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She’s a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy Picture Quote #1

I am not an educated person. I didn’t come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I’m not a Baryshnikov. I’m not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I’ve always had these feelings. But I think they’ve also helped me Picture Quote #1

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater Picture Quote #1

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what’s not working and why it’s not coherent Picture Quote #1

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott and Costello. My television influences were ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus,’ ‘Benny Hill,’ and ‘Hee Haw.’ Picture Quote #1

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For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can’t showcase in Aaron Sorkin’s work Picture Quote #1

I think there’s a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they’ve got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville Picture Quote #1

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight Picture Quote #1

Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It’s exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome! Picture Quote #1

TV-a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing’s well done Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals Picture Quote #1

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TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing’s well done Picture Quote #1

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what’s not working and why it’s not coherent Picture Quote #1

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities Picture Quote #1

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft Picture Quote #1

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons Picture Quote #1

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville Picture Quote #1

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The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you’re doing one thing. That is, you’re going to make the audience laugh Picture Quote #1

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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink (Vaudeville Quotes) Each couple is its own vaudeville act (Vaudeville Quotes) George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved (Vaudeville Quotes) If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in (Vaudeville Quotes) I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me (Vaudeville Quotes) His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it (Vaudeville Quotes) My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working (Vaudeville Quotes) In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She’s a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy. (Vaudeville Quotes) I am not an educated person. I didn’t come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I’m not a Baryshnikov. I’m not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I’ve always had these feelings. But I think they’ve also helped me. (Vaudeville Quotes) Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater (Vaudeville Quotes) The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what’s not working and why it’s not coherent. (Vaudeville Quotes) I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott and Costello. My television influences were ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus,’ ‘Benny Hill,’ and ‘Hee Haw.’ (Vaudeville Quotes) For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can’t showcase in Aaron Sorkin’s work. (Vaudeville Quotes) I think there’s a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they’ve got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville. (Vaudeville Quotes) Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight (Vaudeville Quotes) Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It’s exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome! (Vaudeville Quotes) TV-a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing’s well done (Vaudeville Quotes) I wasn’t straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals (Vaudeville Quotes) TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing’s well done (Vaudeville Quotes) The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what’s not working and why it’s not coherent (Vaudeville Quotes) I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities (Vaudeville Quotes) Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft (Vaudeville Quotes) No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons (Vaudeville Quotes) Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville (Vaudeville Quotes) The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you’re doing one thing. That is, you’re going to make the audience laugh (Vaudeville Quotes)